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Das Racist was an American alternative hip hop group based in Brooklyn, composed of MCs Heems and Kool A.D. and hype man Ashok Kondabolu (a.k.a. Dapwell or Dap). [1] Known for their use of humor, academic references, foreign allusions, and unconventional style, Das Racist was widely hailed as an urgent new voice in rap, after occasionally being misunderstood as joke rap when they first appeared.
2DopeBoyz is an online hip hop music review, news and criticism website launched in 2007 by Meka Udoh and Joel "Shake" Zela, who were former editors at HipHopDX. [1] [2] The website played a central role in hip hop's blog era of the mid-2000s and early 2010s, a period of growth for non-mainstream outlets as music media transitioned from primarily print and radio-based to online outlets and ...
On Tuesday, the auction house Sotheby's hosted the sale of 150 pieces of hip-hop history. Artifacts like the gold crown that the Notorious B.I.G. was last photographed in, letters written by Tupac ...
The early 2010s blog era of hip hop was defined by the rise of internet platforms like Tumblr, DatPiff, and niche hip-hop blogs such as 2DopeBoyz, Nah Right, and IllRoots, which became primary outlets for discovering music. This era saw a shift as artists began thriving outside traditional industry systems, using blogs and social media to ...
An esteemed list of hip-hop heads will come together on Dec. 10 to talk about the art of DJing. Panelists include DJ EFN (Drink Champs), Jarobi White (A Tribe Called Quest), K Foxx (99 Jamz) and ...
"Right Now (Na Na Na)" is the lead single from Akon's third studio album, Freedom. The song contains elements from "Remember" by Summer Love. [ 1 ] The song was added to the U.S. Mainstream Top 40 radio airing on September 23, 2008, and also became available for digital download on iTunes that day. [ 2 ]
The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in the United States. It was supported with two singles with accompanying music videos: "Nah, Nah...", which peaked at number 61 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and "Behind Gates".
Starting out as a sculptor in New York City in the 1970s, Chalfant turned to photography and film to do an in-depth study of hip-hop culture and graffiti art. One of the foremost authorities on New York subway art, and other aspects of urban youth culture, his photographs record hundreds of ephemeral, original art works that have long since ...